This paper is to help you to understand the steps involved in creating shared storage without using expensive shared storage. Using this information you can create shared storage used by all xen guest OS and Host, avoiding copying of files between guest OS’s. Hope you will find this paper useful.

You can easily port instructions to Redhat or any other Linux distro without a problem. You can also use Redhat’s Global File System (GFS) too. We often use Fibre Channel or iSCSI, devices for GFS shared storage.